MapR Announces Initiative for Integration between Apache Drill and Apache Spark
MapR Technologies, Inc., provider of the top-ranked distribution for Apache Hadoop, today announced an initiative to integrate Apache Drill, which provides instant, self-service data exploration across...
View ArticleCloudwick Launches Big Loop, the First Big Data Collaboration Platform
NEW YORK, NY– Strata + Hadoop World (Booth 236) — Cloudwick, the leading big data DevOps service and solution provider to the Fortune 1000, today announced Big Loop, its multi-vendor operations...
View ArticleSD Times news digest: Nov. 4, 2014—Google updates Material Design, Dell and...
Google’s Material Design gets another update Google is answering the comments and suggestions developers have been giving them about its material design by releasing another major update to the spec....
View ArticleTaking Big Data to the street in 2014
This was the last year in which Big Data was an off-the-street term. As the year ended, Hortonworks was preparing to go public, with Cloudera preparing for the same outcome. Big Data will officially...
View ArticleStrata highlights mature Hadoop ecosystem
Just a decade ago, the idea of the United States government being a Big Data warehouse for the public was silly. Today, however, the country has a chief data scientist for the first time in its...
View ArticleMapR declines Open Data Platform invitation
Hadoop distribution provider MapR announced it has declined its invitation to participate in the Open Data Platform (ODP). In a blog post MapR laid out its main criticisms of ODP, including calling it...
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The Tale of Ted Dunning: The Apache Incubator’s ever-curious Big Data scientist
Ted Dunning, the newly appointed vice president of the Apache Incubator, is a Big Data scientist in a world of coders. Currently the chief application architect at Hadoop distribution company MapR, the...
View ArticleHadoop Summit: Cascading 3.0, DgSecure 5.0 and MapR’s Azure integration
Data application infrastructure provider Concurrent has announced general availability of Cascading 3.0. The latest version of the enterprise Hadoop application development and deployment platform...
View ArticleSpark Summit: Apache Spark news from Databricks, MapR and more
Databricks has announced the general availability of its cloud-hosted data platform, formerly known as Databricks Cloud. Less than a week after announcing the release of Apache Spark 1.4, Databricks...
View ArticleNoSQL: It really is all in the name
For most of the 1990s, databases were the most boring tool in the shed. The rise of the Web over the aughts changed the demands placed on databases, but did not meaningfully change the form of the data...
View ArticleMapR adds JSON support to its NoSQL database
MapR Technologies today announced the availability of a developer preview of its new native JSON support inside Hadoop. This addition gives users access to a document store that can be linked directly...
View ArticleAndroid will release Android Fingerprint API, Google turns over search...
Android 6.0 Marshmallow is publicly available to users, and Android’s developers have been adding new features for developers along the way. This week, they are releasing Asymmetric Fingerprint Dialog,...
View ArticleMapR introduces publish/subscribe streaming for Hadoop
While many in the Big Data space are talking about stream processing, MapR today announced the availability of Streams, a new product in its Hadoop stack that can be used to stream events across...
View ArticleMapR Converged Data Platform provides new advances for containers
MapR Technologies wants to further Big Data containerization in the enterprise. The company has announced an updated version of its MapR Converged Data Platform that provides new advances for...
View ArticleHadoop show highlights new tooling for management
Strata and Hadoop World day two kicked off with more Big Data-related announcements. Chief among them was Platfora’s 5.2 update, which brings native Tableau integrations into this data analytics...
View ArticleMapR Academy, Pluralsight to add new developer training programs
MapR, a converged data platform, and Pluralsight, an online learning platform, both announced new curriculum offerings for developers who want to learn new skills in either Apache Kafka or Java. MapR...
View ArticleVR for Good, Amazon open-sources DSSTNE, and the Google Spaces app—SD Times...
Virtual reality headsets can let users play games and enter different worlds, but Oculus is putting VR to good use with its VR for Good program, where philanthropic and socially beneficial projects can...
View ArticleWhat real-time data streaming means for the enterprise
Big Data has introduced some notable challenges to the enterprise world. At first, it was enough to wrangle the data (structured and not) and then to glean actionable information from it, but today,...
View ArticleStrata + Hadoop World: Databricks’ annual Spark survey, MapR’s Converged Data...
Apache Spark is reaching more users in new places, according to a recently released report. Databricks announced the results of its second annual Apache Spark survey, which revealed Spark is...
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JetBrains’ Rider public EAP, Fedora 25, and MapR’s Customer 360 Quick Start...
JetBrains is providing an inside look into its cross-platform .NET IDE. The company announced its early access program for Rider is now open to everyone. Rider is based on the IntelliJ platform and...
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